From 2014 to 2016, Sierra Leone battled the Ebola virus. Being one of the countries hardest-hit, they lost nearly 4,000 lives, including seven percent of their healthcare workers. Closed schools, shutdown businesses, and overrun hospitals are scenes all too familiar for local citizens. When news of the coronavirus (COVID-19) broke, hospital workers at Koidu Government… Continue reading Past Support Prepares Hospital
Story Category: Humanitaarinen
A Safe Place to Play
Once wrought with unsightly, overgrown foliage, weeds, and dangerous playground equipment, Korczak’s Gardens is now a beautiful, safe place for children of a nearby orphanage and a school for children with disabilities. Thanks to a US$40,366 LCIF grant, crews cleared land, installed a synthetic surface designed for safe play, and paved a new path so… Continue reading A Safe Place to Play
Isolated, But Never Alone
It can be tough moving to a retirement home. There are new surroundings to learn, routines to create, roommates to meet, and adjusting to living apart from family. It is a new reality that can make residents feel lonely as they adjust. It can be even more difficult when illness requires isolation from visitors. During… Continue reading Isolated, But Never Alone
Ease the Burden
The Lions of District LC-4 were recently awarded a Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) Standard grant of US$27,900 to purchase a 15-passenger transportation vehicle and medical equipment for the association. Now, patients are transported in a more efficient and comfortable manner, and the home can provide improved medical care. Through LCIF, communities gain access to… Continue reading Ease the Burden
New COVID-19 Triage Center
Even in a pandemic, Lions are finding ways to serve and LCIF is supporting them. In Paramaribo, Suriname, s’Lands Hospital was at full capacity. Its triage units did not have any more room for patients. In fact, they began to expand their dermatology unit to create more beds for patients with the coronavirus (COVID-19). Nurses… Continue reading New COVID-19 Triage Center
Adoption of a School
Member of Lions Club Lucknow Century District 321B1 Lion Dr. Rama Kant (Retired professor of King Georg’s Medical University, Lucknow) saw a child searching some food in the spread over trash, and garbage of local residents in Vikas Nagar. Dogs and pigs were competing with him. They talked to that child Ghisa, an 8-year-old student… Continue reading Adoption of a School
Way to Ambulance
Whenever an ambulance’s red light is flashing.. Whenever its siren is on… It means a life is at stake… You must give way to the ambulance… So that it can quickly get to the scene to treat the sick or injured.. Save Lives. Give way to ambulances… With the increasing traffic on the roads, ambulances… Continue reading Way to Ambulance
Mohan’s Handcart
Every evening, I walk on my balcony. Often while walking, I used to see a middle-aged woman working in the neighborhood coming and going. She seemed very upset and sad. Seeing her, many questions used to arise in my mind. I wanted to know what turmoil she lives in and what is the worry that… Continue reading Mohan’s Handcart
Be The Change
Mahatma Gandhi famously said, ”You must be the change you want to see in the world.” In other words, although life changes are inevitable, we can also initiate personal change so we can rise to the challenge and become a bigger and better person as a result. Realizing Be the Change on the occasion of… Continue reading Be The Change
Club-35
Lions Club Lucknow Astitva District 321B1, is primarily a ladies club with an average age of our members being 35 plus. Whenever we would get together, someone or the other had some health issues to discuss, which was pretty obvious of the fact that all of us were getting closer to menopause or had already… Continue reading Club-35